2015-09-04-Paris, FR-Place de la Concorde, L'Orangerie &...

2015-09-04-Paris, FR-Place de la Concorde, L'Orangerie & Tuileries Garden

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Place de la Concorde

The Obelisk of Luxor, Place de la Concorde (The center of the Place is occupied by a giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. It is one of two the Egyptian government gave to the French in the 19th century. The other one stayed in Egypt, too difficult and heavy to move to France with the technology at that time. In the 1990s, President François Mitterrand gave the second obelisk back to the Egyptians.The obelisk once marked the entrance to the Luxor Temple. The self-declared Khedive of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, offered the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk to France in 1829. It arrived in Paris on 21 December 1833. Three years later, on 25 October 1836, King Louis Philippe had it placed in the center of Place de la Concorde.)

Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde-The French Naval Ministry and Hotel de Crillon (North of the Place are two identical stone buildings, separated by the Rue Royale. The eastern one houses the French Naval Ministry, and the western one is the Hôtel de Crillon.)

Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde (The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 21.3 acres in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.)

Oblisque of Luxor, Place de la Concorde (Missing its original pyramidion (believed stolen in the 6th century BC), the government of France added a gold-leafed pyramid cap to the top of the obelisk in 1998.)

Fontaines de la Concorde-Fountain of River Navigation and Commerce, Place de la Concorde (The Fontaines de la Concorde are two monumental fountains located in the Place de la Concorde in the center of Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, and completed in 1840 during the reign of King Louis-Philippe. The south fountain commemorates the maritime commerce and industry of France, and the north fountain commemorates navigation and commerce on the rivers of France. The principal influence on his fountain designs were the twin fountains in Piazza San Pietro in Rome, which also are placed on either side on an obelisk, and which Hittdorff had seen on a visit to Rome in the 1820s.)

Detail-Fontaines de la Concorde

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe from Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde

Palais Bourbon home of the French the National Assembly viewed from Place de la Concorde (This Palais is across the Seine from The Place de la Concorde. The vehicles seen here are crossing the Pont de la Concor, an arch bridge across the River Seine in connecting the Quai des Tuileries at the Place de la Concorde (on the Right Bank) and the Quai d'Orsay (on the Left Bank).)

The Luxor Obelisk, centerpiece of The Place de la Concorde (The Luxor Obelisk is a 23 metres (75 ft) high Egyptian obelisk standing at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It was originally located at the entrance to Luxor Temple, in Egypt. It is over 3,000 years old and was originally situated outside of Luxor Temple, where its twin remains to this day. It first arrived in Paris on December 21, 1833, having been shipped from Luxor via Alexandria and Cherbourg,[1] and three years later, on October 25, 1836, was moved to the center of Place de la Concorde by King Louis-Phillipe. It was gifted to France by Muhammed Ali, Khedive of Egypt.)

Tuileries Gardens

View of Le Grande Palais from Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde

Musée de l'Orangerie (The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Though most famous for being the permanent home for eight Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, the museum also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaim Soutine, and Maurice Utrillo, among others.)

Musée de l'Orangerie

Georgia takes a break outside Musée de l'Orangerie

Place de la Concorde

Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden (The Tuileries Garden, looking from the large round basin toward the Place de la Concorde and Arc de Triomphe)

The Louvre from the Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden approaching Place du Carrousel and The Louvre

Tuileries Garden and The Louvre

Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden

Place du Carrousel (The Place du Carrousel is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, located at the open end of the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a space occupied, prior to 1871, by the Tuileries Palace. Sitting directly between the museum and the Tuileries Garden, the Place du Carrousel delineates the eastern end of the gardens just as the Place de la Concorde defines its western end.)

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel. It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories of the previous year. The more famous Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, across from the Champs Élysées, was designed in the same year.)

Peace riding in a triumphal chariot atop the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

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